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Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman, sentence 113

"What have you to say to me now?" asked the man. "

Who acts: you, man · What happens: say, ask · To what, where: man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Will-o-the Wisp Is in the Town, Says the Moor Woman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

punctobjauxnsubjmarkccompcaseobladvmodpunctpunctdetobjpunctpunctroot"PUNCTWhatPRONhaveAUXyouPRONtoPARTsayVERBtoADPmePRONnowADV?PUNCT"PUNCTaskedVERBtheDETmanNOUN.PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1""PUNCT_6 saypunct
2WhatwhatPRONPronType=Int6 sayobj
3havehaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin6 sayaux
4youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs6 saynsubj
5totoPART_6 saymark
6saysayVERBVerbForm=Inf12 askedccomp
7totoADP_8 mecase
8meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs6 sayobl
9nownowADVPronType=Dem6 sayadvmod
10??PUNCT_6 saypunct
11""PUNCT_6 saypunct
12askedaskVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 mandet
14manmanNOUNNumber=Sing12 askedobj
15..PUNCT_14 manpunct
16""PUNCT_14 manpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assert not said to happen, in a quotepresentyouthe man = mannowvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Topic to i=Recipient
2ask speech: askpastthe manvn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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